Yesterday at the University of Notre Dame, @GovRonDeSantis discussed why college campuses in Florida were not plagued with student encampments.

"If any of our universities turned into Columbia, the university president would lose their job the next day. It would be done. We would not ever tolerate the inmates running the asylum."

DeSantis spends a few minutes examining the claim that Palestine is "occupied" to expose how pro-Palestine clichés "betray their ignorance."

"If you find yourself out there saying somehow 'end occupation,' I would just like to know when there was some type of Palestinian [state]. I think it's all people that don't know their history. I think it's kind of like the Left Wing Cause Du Jour." This allowed DeSantis to discuss how students who claim Gaza is occupied are "never challenged on their assumptions."

He goes on to discuss how conservative students on campus "learn how to make arguments, you learn how to marshal evidence, you learn these things because no one on a university campus is just going to accept conservative assumptions about any of these issues without a fight."

DeSantis talks about initiatives in Florida that foster civil discourse and free debate.

"I want all of our students to have their assumptions questioned."

"You learn the most when you're given a topic and you have to argue on the side that you actually disagree with."

DeSantis discusses the cold reality of the cost you have to pay to stand up for these issues on campus, but he believes that "the only way for bad to triumph is for good people do nothing."

He wraps up by discussing how he has friends who he disagrees with politically and are able to maintain friendship. However, the Governor notes that he thinks Leftism is a religion for some and that is why people get "disowned for supporting conservative causes." DeSantis think that is dangerous for the country and we need more bipartisan comradery.

There will be a nationwide Student Strike in Spring 2025. How do I know this? Because it's already being planned by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine.

Buckle up as you see many familiar faces like @Cornell's Momodou Taal, who nearly had his student visa revoked, and @Columbia's Sean Eren, a panelist from the infamous pro-terror Resistance 101 teach-in! 🧵 Intros were a tad shaky, but the organizers of this call are...

Saffa Nahi from Cal State Fullerton
Carlos Callejo from Cal Poly Pomona
Aron Ali-McClory from the University of Florida (Note: I remember him from the UF attempts to have an encampment.)

Nahi pauses to introduce the two YDSA Palestine Committee co-chairs.

Daniil Sapunkov from Hunter College
Arjun Janakan from Purdue University

Janakan kicks off this event by saying, "This is our first big event of the school year and the extension of the Student Intifada, and I'm very excited to cohere the national strategy of going forward and making a consistent cohered sense of force into our next upcoming school year of Palestine activism."

Thank you to everyone who reached out today about Samidoun being labeled as a terrorist entity by the US and Canada.

For those catching up on Samidoun, here are a few older threads of mine about this nefarious terrorist front and places where accountability is needed. 🧵 Samidoun's Kates was an invited speaker at a CUNY teach-in back in November of 2023 alongside Columbia Professor Baconi and WOL Nerdeen Kiswani.

Once again, @CUNY has remained silent on the radical ties of CUNY 4 Palestine.

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1727097554741907601

Earlier this week, @WakeForest was in the news for canceling an event with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, who was slated to give a lecture entitled One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood: Reflections on a Year of Genocide & Resistance on October 7th. This lecture was canceled at WF, but @CUNY was more than happy to facilitate and make this event happen last night.

I have seen Professor Abdulhadi present countless times. She typically tiptoes around issues of violence, terrorism, and Hamas by invoking social justice, but not last night. Buckle up for One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood 🧵 First some housekeeping; the full talk is up on my Youtube. Since the talk is entitled One Year Since al-Aqsa Flood, I'm going to focus almost exclusively on what Abdulhadi had to say about what I consider to be a terrorist attack. I hope it is understood that Al-Aqsa Flood is the operational name that Hamas gave the attack on October 7th. I do list these together just in case some don't know. I think it is widely understood now, but you never know.

Parts of her lecture, like comparing this moment to Vietnam anti-war protest movements, are outside the scope of what I really think is necessary to cover. With some teach-ins, I cover every minute, but this was a two-hour event. This is why the full recording is made possible.

I pulled an all-nighter to make sure this went out today.

Lehman College's Britt Munro got this talk started by introducing the two speakers, Wake Forest University's Barry Trachtenberg and San Francisco State University's Rabab Abdulhadi.

Munro compares what Israel is doing to the settler-colonialism of America.

"As we gather here in refusal at one kind of settler colonial violence, we recognize that you know everything that we've borne witness to Israel doing over the past year, in the past 76 years, so the erasure, the dehumanization, the genocide, all of that has been done on these lands, the indigenous peoples of these lands, and continues to be done."

CUNY 4 Palestine recognizes the need for stronger solidarity with "Indigenous Struggles here on Turtle Island" and has partnered with the American Indian Community House to make a list of demands for CUNY.

There is then a moment of silence for "the martyrs."

Last week I attended the Student Intifada Roundtable: US, Mexico, Poland, & Egypt, which featured students from around the world. However, I will be focusing largely on the participant from the US, Harvard's Kojo Acheampong, who discussed the Student Intifada at Harvard University. 🧵 The Student Intifada "media company" hosted this event and plans on having more roundtables like this.

The Student Intifada moderator introduced Kojo Acheampong as "a student at Harvard, member of Harvard AFRO, African and African American Resistance Organization, and HOOP, Harvard out of occupied Palestine."

Acheampong gets started with some history of the student intifada at Harvard.

"You know October 7th happens and the Palestine Solidarity Committee releases a statement regarding, like, you know, saying that the violence obviously is all on the settler colonial regime that's Israel and it goes crazy, you know? Folks, Zionists, start attacking the movement, obviously, but it also draws a lot of people into the movement."

Acheampong states the mission and goal of the student movement.

"Our task is to build a mass movement and make Palestine a popular issue; make Palestine, you know, something that the world can see, right, and something that they'll see in the struggle. And so that's what we've been trying to do for what the past almost year now."

I sat in on SJP at UCLA's class 'What is Escalation, The Palestinian National Movement, Revolutionary Optimism.' What I heard and saw was a deeply radicalized SJP chapter sharing all manner of terrorist propaganda, preparing for “escalations” in the new semester, and praising October 7th as an “escalation” done right.

Prepare to meet the useful idiots of SJP at @UCLA 🧵 The class got started with some "Resistance Updates" as “Eos” shared news from various armed militant groups like the Tulkarm Brigades. She relates that these groups had killed civilians in the West Bank and expelled many with their "blessed bullets."

"The only thing that is fighting back against the occupation is the resistance and it's really amazing how the you know the Axis of Resistance and like the resistance on the ground in Palestine is you know despite their conditions continuing to resist."

This is a UCLA student casually endorsing terrorist attacks.

Here is the second of four forums that Brown University is holding in regards to divesting from Israel. Yesterday, students opposed to divestment presented their case.

Stick around for the full recording and clips from this forum! 🧵 Here is the video of the full presentation. Remember, Brown is a private university; you can't FOIA this video. Without me, this recording may not have ever gone public. This will be mirrored on YouTube as well.

Brown Divestment Coalition works with other student divestment groups across the nation. What happens at Brown will impact other schools. Higher education frequently likes to welcome you as part of the greater "community" until you start making things difficult for them. Clearly, they don't want full transparency on this matter.

BREAKING: Joseph Edelman, a Brown University trustee, has now resigned over the future divestment vote at Brown University.

As a result, I am releasing my recording of the Wednesday meeting where the Brown Divest Coalition presented their proposal to divest from Israel. Here is video of the full presentation below. Remember, Brown is a private university; you can't FOIA this video. Without me, this recording may not have ever gone public.

I honestly wanted a bit more time with this footage and other divestment trainings I have recorded to present this in a digestible format. The language of ESG is how many of these students are getting their foot in the door and they are being trained to exploit this. There is a lot I could say about this subject.

However, Edelman's resignation will hopefully get sizable attention, and I hope by "democratizing" this footage, you can see how ridiculous this presentation was. If you use it, please tag me so I can boost it and comment if needed.

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On Sunday, I was able to see most of Welcome to Chicago: Radical Memories, Revolutionary Horizons.

This teach-in featured young activists who are marching on the DNC but also three members of the Weather Underground, a Black Panther and Black Liberation Army militant who murdered two police officers, and the founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago, who actively works to abolish prisons and police.

A hailstorm knocked out my power, so I did not catch all of this event, but what I saw was the torch of militant radicalism passed to the next generation. Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers hosted this event and had the two younger activists introduce themselves.

Dixon Romeo of Not Me We and co-chair of the March on the DNC, Kobi Guillory, represented the new generation of militant activists. Guillory is also a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

On August 8th, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization held their All Out for the March on the DNC organizing call. The DNC is being targeted by far-left activists from across the nation who are all united under the banner of ending U.S. aid to Israel and "freeing" Palestine. Up first was Chrisley Carpio, who explained what the Freedom Road Socialist Organization is and why they are motivated to protest the DNC.

"We are an organization of revolutionaries that is on the move and that can move others. We are committed to making a serious change. We're tired of the system that we live under, that is built upon war carried out by the imperialists. Starvation, poverty, we think that this is a system, oh, and genocide." [SIC]

"We think that the system cannot be fixed with reform, and we know because of the revolutionaries who came before us that change won't come from an ivory tower high above our heads. It's definitely not going to come from the billionaires who play with our lives like they're just chips in a casino nor their political agents in the Democratic Party who would rather fund a genocide of the brave people of Palestine than meet our demands. Our hope comes from people taking matters into their own hands, taking to the streets, and seizing political power."

"We'll be standing together with the people of Palestine, the heroes in Gaza, and the oppressed peoples of the world."

BREAKING: The pressure must be on because Representative Ilhan Omar is out knocking door to door letting people know that the Minnesota primary is tomorrow. She called into her phonebank to thank those that are calling voters for her.

Omar's bandwidth improves! Her campaign has counterarguments for the following:

Ilhan hates Israel.
Ilhan is anti-semitic.
Why is she running for a 4th term?
Ilhan isn't present in the district.
Ilhan voted against aid for Ukraine.
Ilhan is safe - I don't need to vote.

BREAKING: Tonight Code Pink hosted a webinar with two former members of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. Bill Ayers and Eleanor Stein shared their "wisdom" with a new generation of radical activists.

Ayers was particularly complimentary of the student encampments.

"Hats off to the encampments, and hats off to creating spaces where real education went on. Any university worth its salt would have said, 'Wow, these encampments are doing what we should have been doing all along. Let's embrace them. Let's invest in them.' And instead, they called the cops."

Ayers thinks the student encampment energy is going to make itself known at the Democratic Convention this August. Remember, Ayers and the Students for a Democratic Society rioted in Chicago for the 1968 convention.

"A lot of that [encampment] energy, is coming to Chicago. Where is it going to go? What outlet does it have?"

Sounds like Ayers expects riots at the DNC this year... Ayers was introduced as "a distinguished professor of education" and as an "engaged scholar."

This totally reminded me of "austere religious scholar" being used for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Eleanor Stein, whom many of my older followers may remember as Eleanor Raskin, was introduced as a "climate justice advocate and activist."

Code Pink's Danaka giggles as she mentions how active Stein was during the "mass movement against the Vietnam War in the 60s and 70s."

There was absolutely no mention of these two being part of the Weather Underground or the fact that their bombing campaign killed people.

It appears that Bryan Park in the Bronx has been renamed "Davis Diallo Plaza" and is now a "site for gathering in struggle." This was shared by the infamous Shellyne Rodriguez, who is known for attacking conservative students and holding machetes to people's throats. 🧵

"Every time the city goes into uprising, we cannot abandon posts. We need to build our own shit here. This needs to be our gathering [site]." At this event, another speaker shared a speech about how gentrification and genocide are "two fronts" in the same war.

"It is essential to acknowledge that some New York City vulture capitalist landlords also identified as Zionists, and many landlords carry out gentrification.

This is why we proclaim that this is one genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign with two fronts, one right here in the South Bronx and the other in Palestine."

For the past few weeks, I have been sitting in on the meetings of the various activist groups affiliated with the Coalition to March on the Republican National Convention. The @GOPconvention is being targeted by activist groups from across the nation ranging from teachers unions to socialists to college students and even paramilitary organizations. Over the next few days, we will be examining this motley crew. Omar Flores, co-chair and spokesperson for the Coalition to March on the RNC spoke first. Flores is feeling hopeful and optimistic. He admits that he feels the Democrats "showboat" and don't do much to defy the Republicans.

He goes on to say, "It's honestly not looking so hot for Biden and you know seeing that Trump might get in, people will know that they could look to us as the real opposition against the Republicans and so that's why it's so important to be out there."

Even after the GOP Convention is over, Flores knows people will be out in numbers now that everyone is better connected and working for similar goals.

"Solidarity is going to be lasting for a very long time and you know until we actually defeat the Republicans' agenda and you know they're going to feel scared to show their faces anywhere."

Part III - Student Intifada: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Last week I attended Student Intifada: Reports from Encampment Leaders. This event was sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization and featured Encampment Leaders who shared their tactics, victories, plans for the Summer, and their goals for the Fall Semester. Up next is Tulane University's Audari Tamayo.

Note: Tamayo often repeats words and uses "You know" as a crutch. I am not editing these out of his quotes. Tamayo explains how the encampment coalition got started.

"It came to be as a as a student-led coalition of five organizations. It was the the Muslim Student Association, the students for Justice in Palestine, Young Democratic Socialists of America, Un-PAC, and of course the Students for Democratic Society."

However, each group had their own tactics and Tamayo felt the school used this situation in order to split up the coalition.

"The administration try to use this [SDS occupation of admin building] as justification to try to isolate SDS and you know put the all the student organizations fighting for free Palestine against each other. Try to play on our you know our differences and you know in in tactics. Like 'oh these guys are too too radical you shouldn't work with them. They're they're too unreasonable' and you know it didn't work you know. We quickly realize you know after speaking with each other, we realized you know that this is just you know COINTELPRO 2.0"

Part II - Student Intifada: Tulane University

Last week I attended Student Intifada: Reports from Encampment Leaders. This event was sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization and featured Encampment Leaders who shared their tactics, victories, plans for the Summer, and their goals for the Fall Semester. Up next is Tulane University's Maya Sanchez. Sanchez got started with a caveat: "I'm a little bit
limited on what I can say because we're all under investigation with no updates."

Sanchez thanks the Loyola University New Orleans chapter of Students for a Democratic Society which supported Tulane SDS. They put aside their school rivalry to organize together as student activist organizations. They decided on building the encampment at Tulane because "Tulane is the bigger target."

"Tulane, I would say is probably one of the largest unaffiliated Zionist universities in the country. They will not say that they're attached to anything, but they very clearly are. Our school has a 43% Jewish population which is not to conflate Zionism with Judaism, but what it does mean is that Hillel has a massive stake in our institution.

They have brought active IOF soldiers onto our campus who are literally straight from Gaza, all of which is approved by our university. They host or scheduled an Israel day during Tulane's anti-Semitism awareness week and were very very mad when some of us had that rescheduled."

Part I - Student Intifada: Cal Poly Humboldt

Last week I attended, Student Intifada: Reports from Encampment Leaders. This event was sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization and featured Encampment Leaders who shared their tactics, victories, plans for the Summer, and their goals for the Fall Semester. First, we will be hearing from Cal Poly Humboldt's Rick Toledo. Rick explains the genesis of the occupation. It was inspired by actions at Columbia University, but it was originally planned as a sit-in.

"We initially had planned for a sit-in, but when we got there and we started to actually have students move in, there was a fast police response. And as the police escalated and started to commit violence against students, barriers were erected, more defensive measures were taken. And I think for a lot of other encampments and even occupations, maybe they had a solid plan first. This was a little less organized and we had to really come together as we went and find ways to uphold these barriers and to prevent the police from taking our people.

A big part of what made it successful was actually that we had support from the community. We put out calls to the wider community and they showed up in force. We ended up having people just encircle the police, just well over - at least hundreds of people, maybe a thousand people. It was a lot and by encircling them and creating a defensive perimeter we were able to kind of push back."

Toledo ends by discussing how the faculty got involved and pressured the administration to call off the police.

Frontline has released a new documentary called Crisis on Campus. I wouldn't even know about it if it weren't for @PamelaParesky noting that "I know it couldn’t possibly have been intentional, but this PBS Frontline documentary went live on Youtube last night — on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which ends tomorrow. This means that the observant Jews featured in it can’t comment until then."

Buckle up as we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of Crisis on Campus. 🧵 The clip that everyone will likely be talking about and debating is this one featuring Tala Alfoqaha, Israa Alzamli, and Lea Kayali.

They discuss the infamous statement that their group, Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, drafted up. Thirty other student groups signed onto this statement.

Alzamli says Hamas is the result of living in a "pressure cooker" of "Israeli oppression."

Alfoqaha says, "Hamas is like a manifestation of the structure."

Police gave the Wayne State University Encampment until 6:30 PM to dismantle the encampment. However, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is there at the encampment and wants the Wayne State Board of Regents to meet with the students. Is she willing to get arrested with the students to make a point? It does look like the university backed down, and a crowd came out to see the congresswoman. Esa and Lexi were also asking for students and community members to show up.

Roua Daas, a dual PHD candidate in Psychology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University spoke at the People's Conference for Palestine this weekend.

I found her speech to be deeply radical as she preached for revolution, that the student movement was guided by the resistance in Gaza, and encouraged her fellow students to spill into the streets this summer. Daas often says the quiet part out loud.

First she admitted that the student movement and the encampments existed to "agitate our campuses."

Daas states that divestment wasn't about saving lives, but to "weaken the state of Israel" and to expose the "non-democracy" that is the United States' international agenda.

She also admits that many student direct actions and disruptions were purposely designed "to capture public attention and then force the state and police to repress us in full public view."

She concludes by discussing how the university has created this "moral crisis" by siding with "the empire" and focusing on profits instead of living up to "humanistic values."

"Student Organizers have encouraged other students on their campus and the general public to question or outright turn against the state. Students have brought the war home."

York Centre 4 Palestine & York-South Weston 4 Palestine hosted Community Safety and the Policing of Palestinian Solidarity Movements. This teach-in promoted terrorism, radical militancy, the escalation of tactics, and the abolition of the police.

Movement Defense Committee, Walls Down Collective, and Samidoun Toronto spoke at this teach-in, but today we will be focusing on Samidoun since their presentation was the most radical and endorsed violence, terrorism, and lawlessness. The unnamed Samidoun representative discussed "Badjacketing" which is accusing someone or planting doubt on the authenticity of an individual's identity. Historically, this has meant accusing someone of being a federal agent or a police officer.

However, the Samidoun rep is concerned activists are now policing one another and accusing militant activists of being outside agitators.

"We even saw the just grave consequences of badjacketing in the uprisings against racist police violence in 2020 and it again it really has some severe consequences. One example was of someone who got badjacketed is Isaiah Willoughy. So he's actually pictured here, he's a black man who was arrested and sentenced to 2 years in prison for allegedly lighting a fire outside an abandoned police precinct in Seattle. And then the other person pictured here is this white woman Christina Beverlin and she actually blasted out a photo of Isaiah when the fire happened and she tweeted out that Isaiah "just tried to start a fire at the abandoned precinct" and called on everyone to "retweet the photo" of this man and she was alleging that he was an outside agitator trying to make peaceful protesters like herself look bad."

"She deputized, self- deputized herself as peace police to discipline his militancy." [SIC]